Camp-2010

Young Life Camp-2010-Minnesota

BEST WEEK EVER!!! We all had a blast! Travel there was not bad! We pretty much had the plan to ourselves on the way there, it was NICE! The pilot came and talked to us... Come to find out his daughter was involved in YL, so he liked us! He announced us on the plan, it was SWEET! We had a 5 hour plan ride, half hour ish bus ride to our hotel, and then we got some sleep... If that's what you call staying up talking and watching TV till who knows when! Next morning was the 4 hour bus ride! We had fun with that too! Time for photo shoots and movies!! The driver had been to Cast Away before and had a lot of good things to say about it! The anticipation was building in all of us! Last hour of the ride was pretty rough! We all wanted to be off the bus and AT camp!
Were there...! It was BEAUTIFUL! The welcome was good and you could tell the kids loved it! The week was action packed full of games, skits, music, sun, rain, tears, laughing, photo shoots, and so many other random things! The speaker did a good job telling the kids about Jesus. Cabin time in our cabin was GREAT! The first one was a little weird for me as it was my first time going as a leader. I just remember sitting there listening to the girls thinking... Thank you Father for letting me be apart of this. Thank you for letting me have the chance to love on these girls and show them what Your all about.... During the cabin times, my heart for those girls grew SOOO much. The days to come I knew it was time to put all that I have learned into action. It was AMAZING to have one on ones with these girls and just listen to them. My heart broke for them. Everything they have been threw.. I wanted to take it all away... I had the chance to share my story with some of the girls and tell them what Christ has done for me... I had the AMAZING opportunity to watch 2 girls run to Jesus! I can't even begin to tell you how that felt. To watch their eyes and hearts open to Him. Watch them cry out to Him and ask Him to be Lord of their lives.... Such an AMAZING thing. To be on the front lines of it all was such an eye opener for me as well! God really taught me how to rely on Him threw it all. I have never been so emotionally drained in that way.. It was CRAZY! If I didn't have my alone times with Christ, I'm pretty sure I would have been a mess! During the week I also got to see 2 girls I served on work crew with in B.C. That was cool! One was a leader and the other was on summer staff there. Just another added blessing to the amazing week! All in all there really are not enough words or really even the right ones to begin to explain the week I had! God was working in all of our lives and it was an AMAZING thing to experiance. At the end of the week we had say so... A time where the kids who accepted Christ have a chance to stand up and share with everyone... I do believe 13 from our group accepted Christ! PRAISE GOD!!!

Dentist pain-God's hand at work!

Ok, so... One of my teeth started to hurt sometime in April. I was FREAKING out, because I knew I didn't have that kind of money... BUT, God is SOOO good! I went into the dentist to get my tooth checked out... He found the problem and he didn't even charge me for the x-rays.. We set up an app to get a root canal. During the waiting period I was really worried how I was going ro pay for it all... I knew root canals can coast over $1000... And I knew I didn't have that kind of money... Needless to say I wasn't really praying about it... DUMB. Anyways, Go in for my root canal (PAINFUL) and came out totally drugged up (my body does not like to come off the gas so well, I was high for hours after my app) go to make a payment... And low and behold he is giving me a discount and making my payments low... It was AMAZING! Had to make another app for the last part of the RC and was now just waiting to get it over with.. During the 3 weeks of waiting till my next app I'm still in a LOT of pain... I was pretty much living off of pain pills (which I did not like taking) and trying to just get by till my next app. FINALLY its here! Go in and he starts... By the end of the visit I am in tears and am hurting bad. We find out my tooth is fractured and theres nothing he can do, I have to get it pulled... Good job on telling this to someone who has been sniffing gas for the last hour!! I was a wreck! Anyways, he doesn't charge me for the last pert of the Rc (such a blessing) and now its time to talk about surgery... Get the surgery and am now mending up, when something starts to hurt.... NOT AGAIN...! Go in get a cleaning and 18 x-rays... Find out I need another root canal... I was SO excited... NOT Just had the first part of the RC last week and it still hurts so I'm getting checked on tomorrow...

With all of this to say.... I was freaking out for no reason. In this time God showed me that if I just give Him the control and let Him take care of me, He will! God blessed me with an AMAZING dentist and I am SO grateful for that. But God also opened my eyes to His AMAZING hand at work in my life. Between blessing me with a great dentist, the new job that helps me pay for it all, and the amazing friends who have taken me to my apps and that let me mend up at their house (DuHadways)... Its been SOO cool to see God at work in this part of my life. He cares about the little and big things! I'm no longer freaking out about it all. I know God has it under control!

Updates!!!

WOW! It has been too long since I have been on here....! I am SOOO sorry to those who actually read this. I will be updating it now! I have a lot to share with you all! And of course there will be pictures!